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Escazú Prepares for Mudslides

AUTHORITIES expect 20,000 cubic meters of mudto slide off the side of Cerro Pico Blanco, a mountain thattowers over the western suburb of Escazú,...

Officials See Promising Future For Island with Murky Past

ISLA SAN LUCAS, Puntarenas – From the twomoldy solitary confinement cells that tower over the dockat the entrance to the former penitentiary, to the...

Garbage Scandal Erupts, San José Mayor Implicated

San José Mayor Johnny Araya this weekrejected calls that he step down from his postuntil state prosecutors finish investigatingwhether he accepted illegal payments from...

Pollution Costs Country Millions

THE black smoke that follows run-down semitrailers,recycled school buses and 15-year-old cars throughout SanJosé isn’t just stinky and bothersome; it is costly.Air pollution in...

Pacheco, Arias Get Chilly Receptions

• President AbelPacheco publiclydenied a story publishedin the daily LaNación that saidattendees of a ceremonyto celebrate thenew Catholic diocesesof Cartago receivedthe President with“displeasure” andignored...

Crashing the Boards: Hockey Gains Momentum

HOCKEY left the ice and migrated from the northernclimes. It’s now a mainstay on a Costa Rican rink, where up and-coming candidates for international...

Permanent Exhibit Explores Tico History, Identity

IT’S been argued that before colonizersarrived in Costa Rica, it was a land ofnothing. The new permanent exhibit at theCosta Rican Art Museum in...

All the Rage: Paris, London, Milan… and Escazú

THOSE looking for the latest fashionsfrom Paris, London, Milan and Amsterdamneed look no farther than the western SanJosé suburb of Escazú. Cosmo Fashion,owned by...

Unfamiliar Distinctions, Part I

YEARS ago,when computer translationprograms werestill in the earlystages, program developersfed into acomputer the phrase,“The spirit is willing,but the flesh is weak.”What emerged inRussian was...

Sculptor Takes Up Residence in Tres Ríos

ELIZABETH MacQueen’s work hasled her to Italy, Canada, Belgium, Greeceand France. But when she landed in CostaRica two years ago, the world-renownedsculptor intended to...

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